As a stand-alone company,PerkinElmer’s former lighting and detection systems business, now called Excelitas, intends to more aggressively court instrumentation makers, including its former parent, as buyers of its instrument components.

PerkinElmer sold the business last November to private equity firm Veritas Capital for $500 million so it could focus on its core business of health- and environment-oriented scientific instruments. But for Excelitas, the separation “opens up new opportunities,” says Senior Vice President . . .